I mean, how does this not make sense?
We had a million of reports of a million different things, but I think the one conclusion we can gleam from everything is that absolutely nobody was connected in the organization last year. Fox had his own agenda, Brown had his own agenda, Luke Loucks had his own agenda, Wes Wilcox had his own agenda, Monte got neutered and became a Vivek puppet all last year. And LaVine joining a team mid-season that 1. Fired their HC, one of the best in franchise history and 2. Just traded their franchise player, one of the best in franchise history and 3. The other star player, Domas, was never healthy for the stretch run of the year.
How are you supposed to build continuity? One benefit of brining Doug back (and probably the biggest/best reason to do so) is he got to work with these guys for most of last year. He's been in the building, but now he gets to fully run the ship. There's familiarity there, just with Doug's flavor on it now, not left-overs from the Brown era.
There's going to be improvement just from the sheer fact of a top down approach of everyone being on the same page again. There's no warring factions fighting each other for team control.
So last year they weren't even looking? Translation: We don't know who the heck we are but we're going to try to find it whereas last year we didn't try.
